Getting back into DS1 after a long break

[Mike350Z]

Am just wondering how you guys go about this
. According to steam I have played this for nearly 80 hrs. This includes a number of restarts but even so I must be a good chunk through the game.
I got fed up with it after being invaded so many times with cheaters (I was coopping with a mate who had max scored it on the Xbox and yet me and him were getting almost 1 hit killed and doing next to no damage despite hitting invaders)... But I digress


After maybe 4 years + out of the game I want to go back and finish it off on my own (I will stay hollow) but I can't remember the map, the story, where I am up to or what bosses I have already fought

I have this problem with many RPGs as well like Witcher or mass effect or dragon age
How do you folk find your way again on games you have put down for many years?

Thanks

[nomoreblues]

I am a very casul and lazy and clumsy player - what made me love DS was the realization that even when you're slow to get used to combat mechanics and tactics and area maps, the knowledge and experience aquirements stack in a way that utter helpless despair will turn into "hey, I don't fear this environment anymore"

I finished first Witcher kinda liked it did struggle less than on DS but got the feeling of cheap winnings in the end (didn't do highest diffculty)

Got bored out of Mass Effect, loved Dragon Age Origins but learned to hate EA


To find back into it: try and stay if u like and if not play something else :-) (should I try to finish ME?)

[Fishercat]

Just start over is your best bet.

[Ridley]

Originally posted by nomoreblues:

(should I try to finish ME?)

Skip the 1-st, praise the 2-nd, pretend that 3-d didn't exist.

^ Just what this one said. It's called "meta knowledge".

4 Kings were impossible for me once. Until I learned that you could equip Havel's exoskeleton, 2H the strongest melee weapon you have, put the Grass shield on your back and just spam R1/RMB until DEAD. The only thing to look out for - their SUCC attack, but even with this attack, they became rather easy.

I was never good with RPG's myself. Too many numbers. Lighter versions, like Diablo/Torchlight are okay in my book. But "Purebloods"? Pillars of Eternity and such? Nu-uh, never touched those.

Until a friend of mine sent me a copy of DS2 Scholar of The First Sin. This was embarassing(died...what? 40 times in Forest of the Fallen Giants?), but...rather interesting tbh.

Don't rush in, GunZ blasing. Take your time, explore, research and take notes - if it helps.